Opfikon

Opfikon is the name of a municipality within the Swiss canton of Zurich, placed in the district of Bulach. The gift municipality lines returned to 2 settlements, considered one of which is Opfikon itself, situated right from the river Glatt, while on the other aspect of it lies Oberhusen. Glattbrugg, as its name suggests, originally turned into no longer a settlement, but a passage of a few significance. However, the call changed into later extensively utilized for a smithy and a mill that had been constructed near the bridge on the left-hand riverbank, and spherical which in the end advanced every other settlement.

When the whole political order was changed during the Helvetic Republic, Opfikon have become part of the municipality of Kloten, that pertained to the district of Bassersdorf. Oberhusen, lying on the alternative aspect of the Glatt, fell to the commune of Seebach belonging to the district of Regensdorf. After Napoleon's Act of Mediation the administration of the canton of Zurich become rearranged once more, and Opfikon and Oberhusen were united right into a commune named Opfikon, which appertained now to the likewise new-fashioned district of Bulach.